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Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that far more people will experience poverty than will ever strike it rich in the stock market. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Economist and blogger Dean Baker points out that the complaints of the top 2% of American income-earners that raising their taxes will hurt them are just comic. Distributed by Tubemogul.

This is the video of me proposing to Katie Brown (soon to be Baker :D) at Disneyland on August 20th, 2010 singing Apart Of Your World from The Little Mermaid

The favorite bogeyman of the Right, Social Security insolvency, is rearing its ugly head once again. Obama's deficit commission has been told that no solution is off the table, and Dean Baker notes it wouldn't be the first time that a Democratic administration went forward with plans that a Republican couldn't sell to the American people. Baker joins us via Skype to remind us once again that Social Security is solvent for many years, and that there are simple fixes for it if there are...

"...Obama's two lead appointees, his co-chairs, are both on record saying they want to cut Social Security. This should have people very very worried. That isn't a balanced commission." Economist Dean Baker interviewed on Democracy Now, 19 July 2010 For the rest of the interview, go to http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/7/19/part_ii_social_security_under_attack_cuts_proposed_higher_retirement_age_suggested More from Dean Baker:...

President Doug Holtz-Eakin and Dean Baker on Bloomberg July 16th talk with Peter Cook about the potential expiration of tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003.

What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates...

Joining Laura Flanders on The Nation on Grit TV, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center on Economic Policy Research, says that though Obama's financial reforms may ultimately result in greater transparency in the way banks and big corporations do business, the changes will do little to combat rampant economic inequality and unemployment. What is sorely needed, Baker argues, is a fundamental change in the way Wall Street operates. Dean Baker is part of a Nation forum on inequality to be...

CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker discussing and signing copies of his latest book, Taking Economics Seriously, at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. on June 23, 2010.

Dean Baker discusses his book, "Taking Economics Seriously," and focuses on Health Care systems.